4 Responses to “Preserving mushrooms”

Great idea. I’m always buying mushrooms and forgetting to do anything with them until too late- and the chooks aren’t that into old mushrooms. Dehydrating would also work with the glut of Pine Mushrooms we get up here in Autumn.

A visit to Laverton Market netted us 10kg of mushrooms for something like $25 which saw our little dehydrator working for about a week solid and as a consequence I had several large jars of dried shrooms. I still have the largest jar untouched (it’s a foot tall and about 1/2 a foot wide/deep) and I still have some left in one of the smaller jars. We use them in risotto too. 🙂

I love dehydrated mushrooms. They are excellent in just about anything to impart a deep mushroomy flavour. You are right about the cost though. I tend to only have them in any number when we grow them on our mushroom compost 🙂

Rats. Another thing I need to make the most of our produce (although I’ve had zero success with growing mushrooms). Thankfully I have a few years yet before we’re getting that much from our new garden.